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A review by books17
After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross
2.0
It was okay. Matt, his step-dad Justin and little brother Taco have to flee England to France due to an ambiguous apocalypse. Some banks crashed, and this somehow means that The Government can't afford to police the country anymore and everyone has no food? And so chaos.
I was really expecting it to be more about the two brothers trying to escape to France and all the trials and tribulations they'd go through during the endeavour, but they get to France pretty much no worries and the rest of the novel is just a survival drama in the refugee camp - something I usually am a fan of, but it was pretty dry and boring. The characters were fine - just very, very bland. And for a YA novel with quite a few dark themes running through it, it felt incredibly toothless at times, no real consequences going around other than light theft.
If it wasn't short enough to knock off in an afternoon I doubt I would have bothered finishing it.
I was really expecting it to be more about the two brothers trying to escape to France and all the trials and tribulations they'd go through during the endeavour, but they get to France pretty much no worries and the rest of the novel is just a survival drama in the refugee camp - something I usually am a fan of, but it was pretty dry and boring. The characters were fine - just very, very bland. And for a YA novel with quite a few dark themes running through it
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Including the heavily implied rape of Matt's motherIf it wasn't short enough to knock off in an afternoon I doubt I would have bothered finishing it.